Hi Stephen,  I guess I picked a temperature and humidity that was common where I lived in Kentucky and that was the basis for the typical summertime lament of it being horribly hot.  Commonly, when people made their regular remarks about the difference between dry heat and the kind they had to suffer through, the values I mentioned would be what they were experiencing.  I realize that in locales like Houston, Mobile, Charleston it gets much hotter.

And, unfairly, I picked a temperature that is near the upper limit of what usually occurs in typical inhabited locales in the SW.  It would be more common to Death Valley and lower Colorado River regions than to even Phoenix (though not unheard of there).

I do think that the baking heat of temperatures above 105, which occur regularly in the SW and on occasion in the Great Plains region, are worse than anything I've experienced in more humid regions.

But, when your entire body is bathed in sweat that won't evaporate, that is misery, I agree.

And heat can kill, whether humid or dry, despite my earlier statement.  If the body cannot cool itself, heat stroke is a real possibility.  Humidity can contribute to that inability to cool.

I was just participating in the good natured jesting that folks engage in along the lines of "the one I saw was twice as big as the one you saw" (said of rattlesnakes for example).

David

---- Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM> wrote: 
> Come August folks here would kill for 88F and 60%.  95/95 is not uncommon at that time.  When you consider my "95 Trifecta," that temp and humidity while stuck in I-95 traffic, you might as well be in Hell.
>  
> Stephen
> 
> --- On Mon, 4/9/12, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
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> 
> From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
> Subject: Re: Re: I'm back . . .
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Monday, April 9, 2012, 8:09 PM
> 
>  88 and 60% humidity?  I'll take it any time over 120 even if the humidity is 10%.  I've experienced both.

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David McNeely